August 2023

CISA Unveils Upcoming Cybersecurity Strategic Plan 31/08/2023 at 08:31 By The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released its 2024-2026 Cybersecurity Strategic Plan, which the agency says will change the trajectory of our national cybersecurity risk by focusing not just on how to defend but developing metrics to measure progress. This article is an excerpt

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Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product 31/08/2023 at 08:17 By Simon Sharwood CEC-IDE is re-skinned Visual Studio Code with added censorware to spot terms like ‘Taiwan Independence’ Chinese consultancy Digital Guandong has apologized after publishing a product based on open source code from Microsoft without properly disclosing that

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China’s top RISC-V players form patent alliance 31/08/2023 at 05:48 By Simon Sharwood This sort of group usually sees members share IP and vow not to sue each other, to accelerate innovation Nine of China’s most prominent explorers and purveyors of processors built on the permissively licensed RISC-V architecture have formed a patent alliance.… This

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OpenAI urges court to throw out authors’ claims in AI copyright battle 31/08/2023 at 04:32 By Katyanna Quach ChatGPT’s prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues OpenAI is trying to dismiss various claims in two legal actions launched by authors and comedians, who sued the machine-learning super-lab for scraping their books to train ChatGPT

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Oracle Cloud and Azure go down, hard, Down Under 31/08/2023 at 04:17 By Simon Sharwood Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up Oracle and Microsoft’s clouds have gone down, hard, in the Sydney, Australia, region likely due to an issue at a datacenter provider in which both are

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Oracle Cloud goes down, hard, Down Under 31/08/2023 at 02:47 By Simon Sharwood Sydney region went to bed early and is struggling to wake up Oracle’s cloud has gone down, hard, in its Sydney, Australia region.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Barracuda gateway attacks: How Chinese snoops keep a grip on victims’ networks 31/08/2023 at 02:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Backdoors detailed, plus CISA releases more IOCs for IT depts to check Nearly a third of organizations compromised by Chinese cyberspies via a critical bug in some Barracuda Email Security Gateways were government units, according to

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Microsoft still dreams of bendy phones, judging from 360° folding screen patent 31/08/2023 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Could a Surface mobe with one of these displays eliminate all that bad press from the Duo? Microsoft’s first attempt at a folding phone didn’t go so well, though a fresh patent from the Windows giant suggests

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After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links 30/08/2023 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Clicking a URL from a system service will actually open in your chosen browser. For some. How fancy Microsoft has released a Windows 11 preview build that will open links generated by Windows system

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